Kashkaval Garden takes private dinners, cocktail parties, lunches and weekend brunches for up to 45 guests in its Garden Room, and up to 65 guests when a group books the whole restaurant. It is a Mediterranean restaurant and wine bar on Ninth Avenue in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, a few blocks from Columbus Circle.
Seminars and company events
There is no meeting room, but the restaurant works well for the social part of a company program: a team dinner after an offsite, a client cocktail party, a farewell lunch or a holiday gathering. The Garden Room packages cover up to 40 guests for dinner, cocktails or lunch, which fits a department or a project team. A whole-restaurant buyout gives a company exclusive use for up to 65 people. For an office that wants food at its own premises, Kashkaval Garden also runs a catering service with drop-off and full-service options, including office catering, so the same kitchen can feed a working lunch at the office and host the dinner in the evening.
Weddings and receptions
The site does not sell weddings. The Garden Room and the buyout packages suit smaller private celebrations, such as a birthday, an engagement party, a reunion or a family brunch, within the capacities below.
Rooms and capacities
The Garden Room is a private room at the back of the restaurant, with a rustic interior and a skylight, for up to 45 people. The set packages for dinner, cocktail parties and lunch or brunch are written for up to 40 guests. The main dining room can be added through a full buyout, which raises the total to 65 guests. The site does not split these figures into seated and standing numbers, so state your format in the request.
Packages run in two-hour blocks. Dinners and cocktail parties start from 5 p.m. and end by 10 p.m.; lunches and brunches run between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. Extra time is charged by the hour. Weekend brunch is served on Saturday and Sunday.
Catering
Food comes from the restaurant kitchen. Dinner is a four-course menu served as a buffet or family style, with large dishes shared at the table. Cocktail parties are built on buffet appetizers, and passed appetizers can be added. Lunch and brunch work as a buffet with a choice of dishes. Sample menus include tapas with pita, spinach and feta boreks, kale salad, chicken and lamb kofte skewers, hummus, baba ganoush, tzatziki and baklava. A vegan option of garden vegetable skewers is available on request for dinner. Packages include house red and white wine, draft beer, soft drinks, coffee and tea. Mixed drinks, premium spirits and, for brunch, a mimosa and Bloody Mary station can be added.
History and setting
The restaurant sits on Ninth Avenue between 55th and 56th Streets, a stretch of Hell's Kitchen lined with restaurants and close to Midtown offices, the Theater District and Central Park. The Garden Room, tucked behind the main dining room, gives a group privacy without leaving the neighborhood.
Getting there
The address is 852 Ninth Avenue, between 55th and 56th Streets, New York. The 59 St-Columbus Circle subway station is a few blocks to the northeast. The restaurant opens every day, from 11 a.m. on weekends and from noon on weekdays, and closes at 11 p.m. or midnight depending on the day.
